Kidnapped or Captured? Venezuelan President Whisked Away by U.S. Forces

Kidnapped or Captured? Venezuelan President Whisked Away by U.S. Forces

U.S. forces’ capture of Nicolás Maduro has become one of the most contested moments of Donald Trump’s second term, with supporters calling it a long‑overdue arrest and critics describing it as a cross‑border kidnapping of a sitting head of state. The operation, launched in the early hours of January 3 under the name Operation Absolute Resolve, combined airstrikes on Venezuelan air‑defense and military sites with a special‑forces raid on a compound outside Caracas where intelligence agencies beli


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Bad Bunny, Big Stage

Bad Bunny, Big Stage

Bad Bunny is scheduled to headline the Apple Music Super Bowl LX halftime show at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, on February 8, 2026. He was officially announced as the headliner on September 28, 2025, during the halftime of an NBC Sunday Night Football broadcast, in partnership with the NFL, Apple Music, and Roc Nation. In a brief statement released with the announcement, he described the opportunity as being “for my people, my culture, and our history,” referring to his Puerto Ri


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A Few Big Titles, The Whole Conversation

A Few Big Titles, The Whole Conversation

Awards season in 2026 is already shaped by a small cluster of titles that appear across most major ballots. One Battle After Another and Sinners are central in the film categories, while The White Lotus is prominent on the TV side, and the Golden Globes on January 11 are the first major ceremony where all three are in contention. In film, Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another leads the 2026 Golden Globe nominations, while Ryan Coogler’s Sinners receives the highest number of nominatio


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What the Sean Combs Netflix Documentary Actually Covers

What the Sean Combs Netflix Documentary Actually Covers

A four‑part series from Netflix, Sean Combs: The Reckoning, traces the music mogul’s rise and the decades of allegations that later followed. Directed by Alexandria Stapleton and executive‑produced by Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, it combines archival footage with new interviews to trace Combs’ rise in the music industry and the parallel history of accusations from former partners, employees, and associates. Across its episodes, the series centers the accounts of people who say they experienced vio


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Camp Flog Gnaw 2025 Turned a Rain Delay Into a Headliner

Camp Flog Gnaw 2025 Turned a Rain Delay Into a Headliner

Camp Flog Gnaw 2025 ended up feeling less like just another stop on the festival calendar and more like Tyler, the Creator’s yearly home game. Even with rain and delays, the two‑day carnival at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles kept its mix of roller coasters, food stands, and deeply online lineups that make it feel like a very specific corner of the internet turned into a real‑world weekend. Onstage, the lineup leaned into that balance between headliners and cult favorites. Tyler closed one night


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Harry, Meghan, and the Question of Royal Titles

Harry, Meghan, and the Question of Royal Titles

A recent report, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle 'clash' over royal titles, says Harry is increasingly comfortable stepping back from using “His Royal Highness” and “Duke of Sussex,” while Meghan is described as more open to keeping formal titles in certain settings. Other coverage notes that Harry has already appeared as simply “Harry” or “Harry Wales” at events, and that he has publicly talked in the past about being “Harry” before anything else. Commentary around the couple focuses less on l


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‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ Soars Past $1 Billion at Global Box Office

‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ Soars Past $1 Billion at Global Box Office

James Cameron's threequel achieved the milestone Saturday at the New Year weekend box office. After a bumpy 2025, the new year is off to a good start at the domestic box office, thanks to a varied menu of holiday titles that moviegoers are continuing to feast on before schools and college resume and extended work vacations end. Indeed, New Year’s weekend revenue looks to be a post-pandemic best. Leading the pack, of course, is James Cameron’s Avatar: Fire and Ash, which flew past the $1 billio


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Celebrity “I Dos” Already in the Diary

Celebrity “I Dos” Already in the Diary

2026 includes a significant number of high‑profile celebrity weddings that have already been publicly discussed or reported, sitting on top of a few recent ceremonies that helped set the visual template for what these events look like now. Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are among the most covered couples, with Elle reporting that they “don’t want a long engagement” and are already looking ahead to a 2026 ceremony, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce ‘Don’t Want a Long Engagement’ as They Plan for a 202


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Doechii Talks ‘Industry Plant’ Rumors, Adin Ross + More In New Single ‘Girl, Get Up’

Doechii Talks ‘Industry Plant’ Rumors, Adin Ross + More In New Single ‘Girl, Get Up’

Ahead of the new year, Doechii set the tone with her latest track, “girl, get up (ft. SZA).” Coming in at over three minutes, the Florida native uses the track address all her naysayers, specifically, streamer Adin Ross, who’s been spearheading a recent hate campaign against the TDE rapper. Ross, who recently teased a diss track toward Doechii featuring 6ix9ine, has accused the rapper of being an industry plant. “All that industry plant sh*t whack/I see it on the blogs, I see you in the chats,”


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From Hiatus To Headline: BTS Sets A Date

From Hiatus To Headline: BTS Sets A Date

BTS is officially reuniting as a full group on March 20, 2026, with their first group album in almost four years, closing out the long military‑service pause that’s kept them from promoting together. All seven members have now finished South Korea’s mandatory service, so this is the first time since 2022’s Proof that BTS will be back on stage and in promotion cycles as a unit, not as overlapping solo eras. The comeback date first surfaced in handwritten New Year postcards sent through Weverse,


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Trump says Maduro will be taken to New York as EU, Russia, Brazil Condemn Action

Trump says Maduro will be taken to New York as EU, Russia, Brazil Condemn Action

US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, had been extracted from Venezuela by US forces and would be taken to New York to face federal charges, as governments around the world condemned or expressed concern over Washington’s military action. Speaking in a telephone interview with Fox News from West Palm Beach, Florida, Trump said Maduro and his wife were removed by helicopter and transferred to a ship. “They’re on a ship bu


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Trump Claims US Strikes in Venezuela, says Maduro Captured

Trump Claims US Strikes in Venezuela, says Maduro Captured

US President Donald Trump on Saturday claimed that American forces had captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro following air strikes on Caracas and other cities, marking a dramatic escalation in a months-long confrontation between Washington and the Caracas government. In a rapidly unfolding sequence of events, residents of the Venezuelan capital were jolted awake by explosions and the sound of attack helicopters at about 2:00 am local time (0600 GMT). AFP journalists reported that the str


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One More Chapter: How 2026’s Movie Calendar Fills Itself With Sequels​

One More Chapter: How 2026’s Movie Calendar Fills Itself With Sequels​

2026 at the movies is less about surprise than scale, a year built from familiar worlds opening up one more time while a handful of new stories try to slip in between them. Looked at month by month, it’s basically a calendar of “oh, that again” — and then a few titles that might actually feel new. From spring, things start stacking quickly. May brings The Devil Wears Prada 2 and Mortal Kombat 2, plus The Mandalorian & Grogu on May 22, the Star Wars entry that pulls Baby Yoda and Din Djarin onto


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Zohran Mamdani Takes the Oath on a Quran in New York’s Hidden Subway Station

Zohran Mamdani Takes the Oath on a Quran in New York’s Hidden Subway Station

Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration was built around a simple, pointed image: New York’s first Muslim mayor taking the oath of office on a Quran, and not just any copy but a pair of books that tie his story to the city’s. The 34‑year‑old democratic socialist, a Ugandan‑born South Asian who ran on affordability, used a historic Quran from the New York Public Library alongside his grandfather’s and promised to govern “expansively and audaciously” without backing away from the platform that got him elect


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Anthony Joshua injured in Nigeria crash that claimed two lives

Anthony Joshua injured in Nigeria crash that claimed two lives

In late 2025, British heavyweight Anthony Joshua was injured in a car crash near Lagos that killed two of his closest friends and team‑mates. A BBC report, Anthony Joshua injured in Nigeria car crash that killed two team members, described how the Lexus he was riding in hit a stationary truck on the Lagos–Ibadan expressway, leaving Joshua with minor injuries and his long‑time colleagues Sina Ghami and Latif “Latz” Ayodele dead at the scene. An Associated Press piece, Concerns over Nigeria’s ro


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Trump Announces Withdrawal of National Guard Troops From Some US Cities

Trump Announces Withdrawal of National Guard Troops From Some US Cities

US President Donald Trump has said he is withdrawing National Guard troops from several US cities, including Chicago and Los Angeles, after a Supreme Court ruling last week undermined his authority to use troops for policing.  "We will come back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form, when crime begins to soar again," Trump wrote on Truth Social on New Year's Eve. Earlier on Tuesday, the Trump administration withdrew its legal attempts to keep control of troops deployed in LA. Last wee


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